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The Grading Conference is a place where faculty join together to learn about grading practices that best support student learning, promote diversity, equity and inclusion in the classroom, and enhance student and faculty classroom experiences.
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The Grading Conference @thegradingconference.com · Jun 13
That is so exciting!
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The Grading Conference @thegradingconference.com · Jun 13
A thing to note about AI use in writing: AI's will tend to suggest edits in ESWE (Edited Standard Written English). Need to teach students that this is happening to allow them agency to make an informed choice about using the suggested edits.

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The Grading Conference @thegradingconference.com · Jun 13
At a talk: Joy Against the Machine: Integrating Self-Assessment to Create "AI Resistant" Writing

Strategy to address AI risk factors: Make the problem into the solution. Written self-assessments and other projects allow students to shape content and assess their own learning.

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The Grading Conference @thegradingconference.com · Jun 13
When you engage in deep learning, you actively reach for and
repeat skills that you want to build by paying extra special
attention to your performance during each repetition. 2/2

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The Grading Conference @thegradingconference.com · Jun 13
More from Jeff: Let’s define deep learning to be learning that involves anintense, distraction-free focus on growing your abilities by pushing beyond the limits of your current capacity. 1/2

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Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · Jun 12
This conference is evidence that learning how to implement alt grading is a long, slow process of unlearning & reframing how to see students & learning. It's also evidence that 100s of educators & students across disciplines who are deeply committed to learning have been let down by grades.
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The Grading Conference @thegradingconference.com · Jun 12
Several talk are giving results and research about specific implementations of alt grading in STEM classes. It's great to see people who came to the grading conference in previous years come back with the results of what they tried. Love this community!

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Rissa Sorensen-Unruh @clarissasorensenunruh.com · Jun 13
@thegradingconference.com #TheGradingConference

(Hate it when I forget the hashtags)
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Rissa Sorensen-Unruh @clarissasorensenunruh.com · Jun 13
Hi y'all. I wrote yet another thing. This one summarizes and provides expanded sections for the CBE:LSE article I published last year "The ungrading learning theory we have is not the ungrading learning theory we need."
A summary: The ungrading learning theory we have is not the ungrading learning theory we need
Well this summary is only about a year late. The struggle is real, y'all. ;o) This blog is summarizing this article: Sorensen-Unruh, C. (2024). The ungrading learning theory we have is not the ungrading learning theory we need. CBE—Life Sciences Education, 23(3), es6: 1-12.  This article is open access so go download it asap for more information about everything covered here.
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The Grading Conference @thegradingconference.com · Jun 13
Today's keynote by Jeff Anderson: Let’s define learning as a growth process that happens inside your body & leads to changes in your knowledge, beliefs, behaviors, or attitudes. These transformations occur based on your experiences & increase your potential for improved performance & future learning
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The Grading Conference @thegradingconference.com · Jun 12
Several talk are giving results and research about specific implementations of alt grading in STEM classes. It's great to see people who came to the grading conference in previous years come back with the results of what they tried. Love this community!

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merschrod (she/they) @merschrod.bsky.social · Jun 12
Another great day at #TheGradingConference! Currently at a panel of students, learning what alt-grading looks like from their end. #ungrading
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The Grading Conference @thegradingconference.com · Jun 12
Heard around the "watercooler" at the grading conference:

Alt Grading is a gateway drug to systemic change in education.

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The Grading Conference @thegradingconference.com · Jun 12
Would love to know more about the kinds of growth you saw!
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The Grading Conference @thegradingconference.com · Jun 12
That depends. Many of the students want to go to med school, which has apparently transitioned into a highly published activity (while in school).
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The Grading Conference @thegradingconference.com · Jun 12
Talking about writing in Science

Q: Is there a problem?
A: Writing in lower-division science courses is underemphasized. Students are underprepared for upper-division courses to

write reports and correspondence
publish in peer-reviewed journals.

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The Grading Conference @thegradingconference.com · Jun 12
How does alt grading become sustainable? Intentionally teaching the next generation of instructors about grading philosophies and pedagogy. Two different sessions on training GTAs at this year's conference!!

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The Grading Conference @thegradingconference.com · Jun 12
Lot's of conversation about grading writing this year, as well as critical pedagogy around both writing and STEM disciplines. It's amazing to see the cross-pollination of disciplines here!!

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Dr Susan D Blum @susandblum.bsky.social · Jun 11
@asaoInoue says "Grades must be absent" @ #TheGradingConference

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Rissa Sorensen-Unruh @clarissasorensenunruh.com · Jun 10
Did I write a thing in anticipation of #TheGradingConference and specifically for my fellow ungraders who are part of the SCIENCE Collaborative who are attending? Yes, yes I did.

Y’all are gonna let me know your thoughts below, right? RIGHT?!? 😈🫶🏼

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Equity-Minded Pedagogy vs. Emancipatory Pedagogy
There are many current descriptors that are floating around SOTL, DBER, and STEM educational research spaces, each trying to accurately capture some difference in pedagogies: culturally related/res…
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Dr. Katie Mattaini @katiemattaini.bsky.social · Jun 11
Session "Special topics: Neurodiversity" at #TheGradingConference:

@sarahesilverman.bsky.social making the point that #AltGrading *can* provide a "tolerance for error" that is often needed when neurodivergent students are trying to communicate with neurotypical instructors or vice versa.
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Dr Susan D Blum @susandblum.bsky.social · Jun 11
#TheGradingConference is starting its 6th online incarnation and there are almost 1000 people registered! Their mission is ambitious : systemic change at all levels of education!
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The Grading Conference @thegradingconference.com · Jun 12
What are your results?

In four years there have only been 2 students who I haven't been able to get across the finish line.

(Out of over 550 students, Gen Chem)

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The Grading Conference @thegradingconference.com · Jun 12
Dr. Tanner: Things I learned along the way...

If you just ask for corrections, it doesn't replicate - they have to sit a new exam.

If you put the exams online, it doesn't replicate.

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The Grading Conference @thegradingconference.com · Jun 12
Dr. Tanner: What do I think made it work?

Retakes were highly diagnostic - I could pinpoint almost immediately which concepts weren't there yet.

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The Grading Conference @thegradingconference.com · Jun 12
"Dr. Tanner has made me see that the term "scientist" encompasses so much more - it also describes every person who walks through the door of [our classroom]."

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The Grading Conference @thegradingconference.com · Jun 12
Student reactions: "I did not think that I would enjoy learning about Chemistry but this class proved me wrong."

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